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Tony Malinosky, who died Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif., at the age of 101, was at the time of his death Major League Baseball’s oldest living player. On Oct. 5, 2009, we ran the following story to celebrate Malinosky turning 100:

Tony Malinosky, Major League Baseball’s oldest living player, celebrates his 100th birthday today in Oxnard, California. Malinosky played three months for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937 as a 27-year-old rookie before a knee injury ended his inaugural season on July 16; he never recovered well enough to play in the major leagues again. read more...

On Feb. 2, 1848, an American diplomat and three Mexican officials signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War and granted to the United States a huge swath of Mexican territory. Perhaps fittingly, the treaty ending the war’s bloodshed was signed on the main altar of a church called the Basilica of Guadalupe in the Mexico City suburb town of Hidalgo, hence its name. read more...

When the United States drove Cuba’s cruel Spanish masters away by winning the Spanish-American War in 1898, the island’s people rejoiced: independence was at hand! A Cuban insurgency had been fighting for independence from Spain since 1895, and Americans had become increasingly upset with the harsh measures the Spanish military used to suppress the insurrection. But did the Americans really come as liberators? read more...

NewsInHistory is continually adding more content to our historical newspaper archive—titles new to our collection as well as expanding the date ranges and number of issues for titles already in our archive. New titles are indicated by an asterisk (*). This current addition involves 26 newspapers from 18 states. A total of 15,513 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 986 issues: 1977 to 1992

Arkansas read more...

NewsInHistory.com is continually adding more content to our historical newspaper archive—titles new to our collection as well as expanding the date ranges and number of issues for titles already in our archive. This current addition involves 24 newspapers from 17 states. A total of 13,285 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 986 issues: 1977 to 1992

Connecticut read more...

NewsInHistory.com is continually adding more content to our historical newspaper archive—titles new to our collection as well as expanding the date ranges and number of issues for titles already in our archive. This current addition involves 27 newspapers from 20 states. A total of 12,581 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 795 issues: 1975 to 1992

Arkansas

Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock). 1 issue: 1871 read more...

NewsInHistory.com is continually adding more content to our historical newspaper archive—titles new to our collection as well as expanding the date ranges and number of issues for titles already in our archive. This current addition involves 23 newspapers from 18 states. A total of 14,263 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 689 issues: 1984 to 1988

Arkansas

Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock). 1 issue: 1868 read more...

Digitizing, maintaining and expanding the vast newspaper archive that NewsInHistory features (over 300 million articles, and growing daily) is a remarkable and complicated process involving the efforts of many talented people. NIH’s archive is actually just one of many created by its parent company, NewsBank inc., a company headquartered in Naples, Fl., whose main operational center is a three-story building on the main street of the small Vermont town of Chester. read more...